Vote in the 2009 Webware 100!

Webware 100 voting is now open

I'm happy to announce that we have opened the voting for the 2009 Webware 100 awards. This is our annual program in which CNET readers select the top Web 2.0 apps and services from our hand-picked list of 300 finalists.

Vote now!

This year--the third year we've done the Webware 100--we had about 5,000 qualifying submissions from which we selected the final 300. These are 300 very strong Web apps, spread into 10 groups of 30 each. We have a new arrangement of voting categories this year, including the important Location-based Services category for apps that provide local info, as well as mapping products. We also combined two 2008 categories, Publishing and Community, into a new category, Social and Publishing, recognizing that today, writing is a two-way activity. Publishing is, by nature, social. See all the categories.

There will ultimately be 110 Webware 100 winners this year. There's a special category that's not open to user voting: The Editors' Awards. I created this category because the popular vote isn't always enough to recognize some of the most important small or up-and-coming services. There will be 10 winners in this category, chosen by me and other Webware editors, in categories including design, most innovative business model, and so on.

All the winners will be announced on May 19.

I think it's worth noting that despite the pall of the economy, which has spelled the end of many interesting Web-based businesses, nearly all of the 2008 Webware 100 winners are still up and running. Only three (so far) have been terminated: Yahoo shut Briefcase; MotionDSP withdrew FixMyMovie and will release the function as downloadable software; and iWantSandy shut down when the app's developer took a job at Twitter. As far as I can tell, everything else is still in business.

Finally, a vote of thanks to the Webware 100 technology providers: I use Wufoo to run the nominations process. They make a great system for building online forms. Polldaddy (acquired by Automattic in 2008) supplies the voting technology for the Webware 100. Last year their system processed nearly 2 million votes without a hiccup.

Go vote!

See the previous years' winners: 2008 | 2007

[doctrina]

Love MS Office Live Workspace. Would be better if they in-line silverlight based doc/ppt/xls editors!!! :)

[Mike_MotionDSP]

Hi, Rafe!

Former WebWare winner FixMyMovie has, indeed, been replaced by downloadable software 'vReveal' as of last week. vReveal has all the fancy, easy-to-use video-enhancement features of FixMyMovie, and much more.

Free 30-day trials available here: http://www.vreveal.com/ (Plug, plug!)

Best,

Mike
Product Manager
vReveal

[acter]

I honestly can't believe you chose iGoogle again! It USED to be a great tool, until they "improved" it. Now I don't even use it anymore, because it became...well.. unusable.

[actorma]

Y'know it would have been VERY nice if you had included a link for each one of the nominees, so we could actually make our choice of whom to vote for educational, rather than only voting on the one we recognize. As it is, I had to copy/paste each one of the webwares mentioned into Google to find the website and see if it was really worth voting for. Next time, do you think you can help us out a little??

[Ken_Saunders]

Hi,
There's a typo on the Webware 100 landing page (http://www.cnet.com/100).


Nominate Now! (Closed)
Vote (Untill April 30)
Winners Announced (May 19)

Until has an extra L in it.

[fun2program8]

The SpotDJ service is no longer active. You might want to remove that from the voting system.

[fun2program8]

Another typo: the Google Reader entry links to http://www.jamlegend.com/

[bowacl]

Agree with can't wait to have MS Office online edit like iDocs. I also agree that iGoogle is iJoke now, I gave it up shortly after the transformation and still don't have a favorite page, on and off I use the gateway igoogle modified but still isn't the same. Not only the left tab it's the tiny font I can't use. Currently back to Yahoo for now. As long as Google has people using everything else what do they care if you use iGoogle?

[fun2program8]

You guys are going to really hate me. I found two more typos.

The http://www.webex.com/ link doesn't do a thing, and the Vonage link, while it works, is a bit of a mess.

[JAY-CHOU]

Wo zhi chi ao you liu lang qi. wo xuan ze , wo xi huan .

[JAY-CHOU]

Maxthon is the best one

[skthivino2003]

ya...goood

[mani9259]

i think by paying your taxes we can be a good citzen for our country
now its the time of vote who is the wright one he will be the winner

[alejandromantecol]

hola no nada solo queria votar por
youtube salu2 ales

[Nannerqueen]

The link for "Twitter search" under "Search and Reference" is wrong!

"twiiter" should be spelled "twitter".


Currently looks like this: http://search.twiiter.com

Should be: http://search.twitter.com/